Assassination Trivia
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05-28-2015, 04:29 AM
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RE: Assassination Trivia
On July 20, 1865, an American publication printed this about Mary Surratt. What was the name of the publication?
"The execution of the four criminals took place at Washington, on the 7th of July. The persons executed were Mrs. Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Harold, and George Atzerott. These persons were all associates and tools of the murderer Booth, by whose hand President Lincoln fell. Mrs. Surratt was even more guilty than the three men who were hanged with her, as she was of mature years, and had the ability to understand the peculiar wickedness of the abominable crime that was plotted. The plotters used to meet at her house, and there they held their consultations, and formed their plans, to all of which she seems to have been a willing and a useful party, her own son being one of the conspirators. Had she told the authorities of what was going on, all bloodshed and executions would have been avoided, and President Lincoln would, no doubt, have been alive at this moment. Her miserable end was the natural end to her miserable conduct." |
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